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Liefeld, Portacio and Peeples Introduce “Major X” to the Marvel Universe

By | January 18th, 2019
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In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Rob Liefeld has announced he will write “Major X,” a six-issue Marvel Comics series introducing a new hero to the X-Men’s universe. Liefeld will illustrate the title with Whilce Portacio (“X-Force”) and Brent Peeples (“New Super-Man and the Justice League of China”), and it will run biweekly from April to June.

Liefeld explained Major X “hails from another existence, which is called the ‘X-istence’ — a mutant Shangri-La, a safe haven that has been a realm where mutantkind has lived in peace and harmony. They escaped there following a tragedy that befell mutantkind, and built this community. There are some familiar faces that he has forged this other society with. But then a terrible event happens within the X-istence that causes Major X to cross over and land in the Marvel Universe that we know. But he doesn’t land in the spot he was hoping, so in the first issue he is in 1991. We progressively get him where he needs to go. By the conclusion of the story, we catch up to modern-day Marvel.”

As implied by the early ’90s setting, Major X’s adventures are a throwback to Liefeld and Portacio’s early years at Marvel: he will arrive at the exact point of time between Deadpool’s debut in “New Mutants” #98 (February 1991), and the first issue of “X-Force” later that year. Liefeld commented that after pitching the series, “I just reached out and said [to] Whilce, ‘I’m having a party, it’s called Major X, could you join?’ I sent him the plot, and we got him for a key chapter in the story. I’m a giant Whilce Portacio fan, fans were jamming on him and the stuff he was doing on ‘Uncanny [X-Men]’ in the ’90s, and when he sent the pages, I could not be more thrilled. It’s 1991 again, I’m jamming with Whilce, we’re making X-Men comics.”

Issues #1 and #2 of “Major X,” which Liefeld promises to be an “explosive” and “jam-packed” debut for this mysterious new hero, will be released in April.


Christopher Chiu-Tabet

Chris is the news manager of Multiversity Comics. A writer from London on the autistic spectrum, he enjoys tweeting and blogging on Medium about his favourite films, TV shows, books, music, and games, plus history and religion. He is Lebanese/Chinese, although he can't speak Cantonese or Arabic.

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